Husking-pin.



m. 647,633. Patentadfipr. I7, I900.

J. F. REINEKE.

HUSKING PIN.

(Application filed Mar. 20, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT OTFICE.

OF IIOLSTEIN, IOlVA.

l-lUSKlNG-PIN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 647,683, dated April 17,1900.

Serial No. 709,799. (No model.)

To (l/ZZ whom it may; concern:

Be it known that I, JOHANNES F. REINEKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Holstein, in the county of Ida and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Husking-Pin, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in bushing-pins.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofbushing-pins and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient oneadapted to permit the pin to lie at an angle in the hand diagonallythereof to facilitate its use and at the same time to enable thefinger-receiving loops to fit the fingers of the operator without beingtwisted by the diagonal arrangement of the pin and without pinching thefingers of the operator.

The invention consists in the'construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a husking-pinconstructed in accordance with this-invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the husking-pin,the strap being removed. Fig. 4: is a plan view of the strap. Fig. 5 isa detail perspective view of the band.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a husking-pin having a tapered end 2, provided with aconcave face at one side and a rounded convex face at the other side,and the other end of the pin is provided with an interiorly-threadedsocket 3 for the reception of a screw 4:, which carries a loop 5 andwhich is capable of adjustment to vary the length of the device. The pin1 is provided between its ends at the inner terminus of the taperedportion 2 with a fixed loop 6, and it has a movable loop 7 locatedbetween the loops 5 and 6 and mounted on a slide 8 and adapted to bearranged at different points 011 the rear or body portion of the pin.The loops or substantially-oblon g rings, which are disposed at anangle, form eyes for the reception of a strap 9, and the slide whichcarries the intermediate eye or ring 7 consists of a cylindrical sleevehaving a smooth inner face which conforms to the configuration of thepin. The metal portions of the device maybe constructed of anysuitablematerial, but the pin and'the screw are preferably constructed of steel,while it is desirable to construct the slide and loops of brass.

The combined guard and finger-strap is composed of front and rearportions 10 and 11, connected by a rivet 12 or other suitable fasteningdevice, and the front portion, which is Wider than the rear portion, isrolled or coiled to form a finger guard or stall, the free end 13 ofthe'wide portion of the strap being provided with a pair of transverseslits 14-, through which the eye 6 of the pin is passed, whereby thefront end of the strap is secured to the same. The narrow rear portionof the strap is divided into two loops by being passed through the eyes5, 6, and 7, and the rear end of the strap is adjustably secured to theeye or ring 5 by means of a band 15, constructed, preferably, of metaland provided with a bulged portion 16 at the outer side to render theband slightly yielding, whereby the adjustment of the strap isfacilitated. The finger-stall receives and forms a guard for theforefinger, and the loops'of the narrow strap, which receive the otherfingers, may be readily adjusted to fit the same. The band, which adjustably secures the rear end of the strap to the rear eye 5, is placedon the narrow portion of the strap before the same is passed through theeye 5, and after the strap has beenpassed through the same its'rear endis engaged with the band,which securely holds the strap at the desiredadjustment. The transverse slits l t, which are adapted to receive theeye (5, provide for an adjustment of the finger guard or stall, and thefree end of the strap is retained on the eye by the nar row portion 11,which passes through the said eye 6.

As the pin extends across the fingers at an angle, I find that with theextended loops necessary in devices of this kind they will bear againstthe sides of the fingers between which they pass and render the pinsobjectionable. To overcome this objection, I place the loops at an angleto the axis of the pin to correis that if it is desired to dispense withthe rear finger-loop in the strap the band 8 can be moved back to theextreme end of the pin, and the strap can be adjusted accordingly, thusadapting the pin to the use of persons whose fingers would not fitwithin the loops as ordinarily formed. It would also adapt the pin tothe use of gloves, which are very desirable by some persons.

The invention has the following advantages: The device, which .is simpleand comparatively inexpensive in construction, is adapted by thearrangement of the eyes and the slits of the strap to fit either hand,and it will not interfere with the use of gloves. It is adapted to bereadily adjusted to suit the size of the hand and when properly adjustedwill not pinch the same.

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and the minor details ofconstruction within the scope of the appended claim maybe resorted towithout departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantagesof this invent-ion.

What is claimed is A device of the class described comprising a pinhaving a smooth exterior and provided at its rear end with anexteriorly-threaded socket, the screw 4 engaging the threaded socket andprovided with a smooth cylindrical head of the same diameter as the pin,adapted to form an extension thereof, so that the entire exterior willbe smooth to dispense with a guard, the eyes 5, 6 and 7, arrangedparallel with one another, the eye 5 being secured to the screw and theeye 6 to the pin, a slide arranged between the eyes 5 and G and carryingthe eye 7 and the strap looped through the eyes and provided at one endwith slits to receive the eye 6, said eyes and slits being arrangeddiagonally of the pin, whereby the latter is adapted to lie diagonallyin the hand of the operator without twisting the loops'on the fingersand pinching the latter, and without necessitating large loops toaccommodate the fingers, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

, JOHANNES F. REINEKE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE ,BISCHEL, ANDREW F. KUNZ.

